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A 14-year-old Palestinian boy was killed on Friday after being shot in the head in renewed clashes outside a police station in Gaza, Palestinian police said. Fathy Mushtaha was caught in a gun battle as members of a powerful Gaza family tried to storm the police station to free an incarcerated relative. In the exchange of gunfire, the boy was mistakenly shot in the head and died instantly, the police said. An attempt by the same family to free their relative sparked a deadly exchange on Thursday that killed a police officer and a civilian.

Gaza dissolving in anarchy ‘Palestinians’ kidnap foreigners, hijack buildings, commandeer border crossing By Stan Goodenough December 30th, 2005 Four-and-a-half months after Israel abandoned the Gaza Strip to the Palestinian Authority, the situation in the Arab-occupied stretch of land along the Mediterranean is rapidly spiraling out of control. Recent weeks have seen armed gunmen from various political, tribal and family factions taking over election offices and police stations, kidnapping more than a dozen foreigners – most recently this British aid worker Kate Burton and her parents this past Wednesday. On Friday, yet another gang of gun-waving masked men sent European Union...